Quick Hits

• EU published the final AI Act, setting it into force on August 1, 2024.
• The legislation treats employers’ use of AI in the workplace as potentially high-risk and imposes obligations for their use and potential penalties for violations.
• The legislation will be incrementally implemented over the next three years.

The AI Act will…

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• With Governor Jared Polis’s signing into law SB 24-205, Colorado becomes the first U.S. state to enact comprehensive legislation regulating the use and development of AI systems.
• The law addresses, among other things, the risk of algorithmic discrimination “arising from the intended and contracted uses of … high-risk artificial intelligence system[s].”
• The Colorado

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DOL Issues AI Principles for Developers and Employers. Pursuant to President Biden’s Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence, this week the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released guidance it refers to as “Artificial Intelligence and Worker Well-being: Principles for Developers and Employers.” The nonbinding…

Last Week, Today. Below is a quick rundown of some significant workplace policy developments that the Buzz missed while at Workplace Strategies 2024. (We hope you can join us at next year’s Workplace Strategies seminar in Las Vegas, Nevada.)

Artificial intelligence. As the Buzz forecasted, pursuant to President Biden’s executive order on artificial…

Quick Hits

• The DOL’s Wage and Hour Division published new field assistance guiding its field staff on the implications of employers’ increasing use of automated systems and AI technologies.
• The guidance cautions that while such technologies have workplace benefits, human oversight is necessary to avoid results that violate federal labor laws.
• The guidance comes after

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FTC Prohibits Non-Competes. On April 24, 2024 the Federal Trade Commission voted 3-2 to finalize its Non-Compete Clause Rule, which effectively prohibits the use of non-compete provisions. The rule fulfills—at least for the time being—a 2020 campaign promise that then-presidential candidate Joe Biden made to “eliminate all non-compete agreements.” The sweeping rule contains an…

DOL OT Rule Imminent. On April 10, 2024, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs completed its review of the U.S. Department of Labor’s rule that makes changes to the overtime regulations implementing the Fair Labor Standards Act. This means that the new rule could be published any day now. As a reminder, the proposed…